#meghpost

instead of the correct text it was a message my wife had sent a little earlier about a book series she's reading

and uh actually that text works surprisingly well

I say "Bye forever!!" with as much genuine enthusiasm as I can muster!

this started as a joke between me and my wife, and like so many jokes with her and i. just, never stopped

aaaanyway

i've been saying this often enough around my friends that it's starting to pick up with them, and they'll sometimes end conversations (at least when i'm around) by saying "bye forever!!!"

i'm very glad to have infected them with this particular phrasing, but i can go further. so now that you've read it you've been infected too. You're welcome. So start saying it to everyone all the time!!

It used to be quite common, but fell out of common usage because???

i'll pay for it through some shell company that can't be traced back to me or any real individual and give that company an equally ominous name like "endtimes inc." or whatever

when the countdown ends the screen cuts to black for 20 minutes or so

and uh, i was a bit gassy. and we got over the "i can't fart around my partner" phase of our relationship pretty early and also i was tired, so whatever

my wife, still half asleep, then rolls over to me, smacks my butt and says "go back in"

a couple seconds pass as we both process what she just said, and then we start laughing so hard that we woke ourselves up completely

i prefer to eat my cereal dry